Grants
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Edward Ferrari | Social Policy | 08 April 2013
How children travel to school is a major public policy concern, reflecting socioeconomic differences among the population. Policies enhancing school choice may contradict public health efforts to promote walking and cycling. Equally, the built form, ...
Dr James Woodcock | Transport Ops & Management | 01 February 2013
This study will create a model to improve understanding about how a step-change in cycle commuting in the uk could be achieved. Cycling could bring a number of benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously improving popu ...
Dr Simon Parker | Human Geography | 01 January 2013
The rethinking centres and peripheries (recap) research seminar series aims to develop new thinking and to generate innovate research surrounding the uneven geographic development of britain’s cities and regions in the wake of the 2008 fin ...
Professor John Preston | Education | 31 December 2012
The 'national infrastructure' is seldom out of the news. Although the infrastructure is not always easy to define it includes things such as utilities (water, energy, gas), transportation systems and communications. we often hear about real or ...
Dr Kiron Chatterjee | Travel Behaviour | 01 November 2012
The aim of the project is to assess how life transitions influence travel behaviour and to identify opportunities from this for policy interventions to achieve desirable transport outcomes. Emerging research has established that significant changes i ...
Dr Matthew Woollard | 01 October 2012
The uk data service will provide a "one-stop-shop" for suppliers and users of social science data. Users will come to the ukds website to search for and browse data collections created by a wide range of data suppliers, including government data, dat ...
Dr Rachel Aldred | Sociology | 01 October 2012
This seminar series brings together researchers from different disciplines and practitioners to discuss innovative ways of responding to pressing policy problems. Twenty-first century societies face three interlinked and seemingly intractable energy ...
Dr Ian Shuttleworth | Human Geography | 01 August 2012
The northern ireland longitudinal study research support unit (nils-rsu) has been funded by esrc to continue its work until 2017. Its core remit is to maintain a ‘safe setting’ so users can access the confidential census and administrativ ...
Dr Nicola Shelton | Demography | 01 August 2012
Celsius is a research support unit for analysis of the office of national statistics longitudinal study (ons ls) which is a complete set of linked census records from 1971-2001 and in future 2011 for 1 per cent individuals, together with data for var ...
Professor Andrew Chesher | Social Stats., Comp. & Methods | 01 July 2012
The centre's mission is to advance knowledge in economic and social science through the development and application of tools for understanding human behaviour using microdata records of environment, circumstances, actions, decisions and outcomes. To ...
Outputs
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Karen Lucas | 05 June 2013 | Sociology | Conference paper/presentation
The paper describes modelled analysis of the 2002-2010 uk national travel survey to determine the travel patterns of low income andother socially disadvanatged population groups at the natioanl level.
Karen Lucas | 05 June 2013 | Sociology | Journal article
The paper reflects on the extent to which adopting a social exclusion approach to the issue of transport disadvanatge has been successful in opening up new avenues of research enquiry and/or has led to the development of new theories, methodologies a ...
Michael Bloor | 31 May 2013 | Sociology | End of Grant Report
To cite this output:
bloor, m, et al (2013) effectiveness of international regulation of pollution controls: the case of the governance of ship emissions
esrc end of award report, res-062-23-2644. Swindon: esrc.
Emily Grundy | 09 May 2013 | Demography | Conference paper/presentation
Presentation given at 1st international workshop on mcod analysis in paris in november 2012
J.W. Robards | 27 March 2013 | Demography | Other publication/report
Poster presented at the faculty of social and human sciences research showcase, university of southampton
Gerry Mccartney | 27 March 2013 | Demography | Conference paper/presentation
Conference paper given at faculty of public health annual public health conference, crieff, scotland, 8 - 9 november 2012.
Nicola Shelton | 26 March 2013 | Demography | Conference paper/presentation
Presentation given at 'ons longitudinal study – opportunities for testing the new research database' meeting, london, 12 october 2012.
Tony Champion | 26 March 2013 | Demography | Conference paper/presentation
Presentation given at 'ons longitudinal study – opportunities for testing the new research database' meeting, london, 12 october 2012.
Rachel Aldred | 18 March 2013 | Sociology | Organised event
Second seminar in the series focusing on bringing together transport modelling with public health perspectives.
Rachel Aldred | 18 March 2013 | Sociology | Journal article
During 2012, cycling advocacy has become increasingly prominent in the uk, particularly in london and edinburgh. This article draws on social movement theory to explore the creation of ‘pop-up campaign’ londoners on bikes, formed to pressure the 2012 ...
Case Studies
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Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Policy recommendations from the sussex energy group have shaped the uk government's position for climate change negotiations, as well as informing the chilean and indian governments on technology transfer policies.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
An environment law online resource is receiving more than 1,100 visitors per month, with most interest in issues around noise, waste and planning
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The research group on lifestyles, values and the environment has quantified how consumer purchasing decisions drive carbon emissions - helping to develop a business standard on carbon footprinting.
Features
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Feature | 07 June 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Public sector
The privatised rail system relies upon billions of pounds of hidden subsidies from the tax payer and has failed to bring in private investment, according to research from the esrc centre for research on socio-cultural change.
Feature | 07 March 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Professor david newberry argues that public investment in the right areas will fuel uk economic growth - with the short-term impact of giving work to domestic private companies who will create jobs.
Feature | 26 February 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Regulations controlling air pollution from ships might be ineffective, suggests esrc-funded research. A minority of berthing ships in the uk and sweden are burning high-sulphur fuel in restricted control areas.
Feature | 31 January 2013 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Investing in human capital, improving the national infrastructure, improving finance provision for private investment and innovation, and the creation of an independent national growth council are key recommendations in the final report from the lse ...
Feature | 04 October 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
The parc study, funded through the esrc-supported national prevention research initiative, has analysed the effect and 'walkability' of pedestrian-friendly spaces in east belfast.
Feature | 19 September 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The integrated transport and health impact model, developed at the esrc-supported centre for diet and activity research, enables transport planners to predict how different patterns of transport use impact on health.
Feature | 30 March 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
The queuing and bulk-buying of petrol is not 'panic buying' but logical, given people's reasonable beliefs about others' behaviour and mistrust of the authorities, argues dr john drury, researching crowd psychology in emergencies.
